Submitting Your Work and Bonus Missions

Sanity Check

At this point, all autograding tests should be passing. To be sure, right-click on the org.launchcode.techjobs.mvc package in src/test/java and select Run tests in… If any test fails, evaluate the failure/error message and go back to fix your code.

You might also want to check your app’s behavior against that of our demo app .

How to Submit

To turn in your assignment and get credit, follow the submission instructions .

Bonus Missions

Here are some additional challenges, for those willing to take them on:

  1. When we select a given field to search within and then submit, our choice is forgotten and returns to “All” by default. Modify the view template to keep the previous search field selected when displaying the results.
  2. In the tables displaying the full job data, find a way to manipulate the font, style, capitalization, etc. to further distinguish the labels from the data (e.g. Employer: LaunchCode). (Hint: We capitalize the title string in multiple templates, so have a look around).
  3. In the tables of the job results, add an click handler to each table cell (except name) to show a new listing of all jobs with that same value. For example, if we have a list of jobs with the JavaScript skill, clicking on a location cell with a value like Saint Louis will generate a new list with all the jobs available in that city.

Super Bonus Mission

This is a big one! Prepare for a challenge!

Notice that we went to the trouble of passing in the actionChoices HashMap to the view in the HomeController.index method. This puts the responsibility of which actions should be presented on the controller, and not the view. However, we didn’t go to such lengths for the navigation links displayed on every page of the site.

In order to make the navigation links similarly detached, we’d need to pass actionChoices in to every view, since the nav links are generated in fragments.html. We’d have to do something like the line below in every handler method, which would be a pain, not to mention error-prone and difficult to update.

   model.addAttribute("actions", actionChoices);

Let’s fix this.

  1. Make a new controller, TechJobsController. This new controller should have a static HashMap, actionChoices. The HashMap should be populated via a no-argument constructor, just like columnChoices is populated in ListController. You do NOT need to add the @Controller annotation to this class.
  2. Write a static method getActionChoices in TechJobsController that returns the actions HashMap.
  3. Add the annotation @ModelAttribute("actions") to this method. This annotation will cause the return value of the method to be set in the model with key "actions" for every controller that extends TechJobsController.
  4. Modify every one of your other controllers to extend TechJobsController.
  5. Modify fragments.html to use the passed-in action choices to generate the navigation links.
  6. Finally, update your code so that columnChoices also lives in TechJobsController.